Unrelated to the lua api, but this occurrance is rather annoying:

viewtopic.php?f=28&t=120112

Noticed this too, aswell as other issues. I'm leaving a pointer here to my post.

Creating display panels from code is a bit cumbersome right now:


local display_panel = surface.create_entity{
name = "display-panel",
position = {-2, -3},
force = player.force
}

display_panel.get_or_create_control_behavior().set_message(1, {
icon = { type = "item", name = "coal" },
text ...